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Apr. 14th, 2022 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42This thought is waaaaaaaaay too cringe for even tumblr to enjoy, so I’m throwing it down over here:
This is Spinal Tap hanahaki fic. Nigel is in love with David, but refuses to admit it. Nigel becomes terminally ill from the hanahaki (a manifestation of someone’s unrequited love where yellow flowers fill their lungs). David thinks that Jeanine is the one Nigel is in love with and so urges him to confess his feelings to her. Only when Nigel is about to have surgery to save his life does David realize it was him that Nigel loves. He goes to confess that he loves him too, except the surgery is over and Nigel no longer loves him.
I don’t know why this had to be Spinal Tap except that I thought it would have been interesting if this had happened during the time that the in-universe documentary was being filmed, so Marty DiBergi ends up making a found footage-style horror film against his will (I dunno, I just have a vivid image of Nigel suddenly coughing up flowers during, say, one of those interview scenes in the movie, which certainly sounds like something out of a horror movie to me). And also I feel like Nigel is the type of character who would rather die than confess his love to David (which is definitely the reason why the movie doesn’t end with them in a relationship, and not because the movie was made in the 80’s and audiences probably weren’t ready for a M/M relationship depicted seriously and not as a joke… I still think it’s 100% canon, I don’t care what anyone says. (Michael McKean even agreed with a fan that it was a love triangle and I don’t care that he was probably joking, when someone told me he had said that I was OVERJOYED. Plus, you could say “well he was just an actor in the movie, it doesn’t matter what his opinion is” but the movie was improvised by the actors so they’re the writers too and I definitely believe that he and ESPECIALLY Christopher Guest were playing the relationship romantically. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk)).
One thing is, I haven’t actually read any hanahaki fics and I also feel like it’s probably a really icky trope if you don’t write it in a certain way (also interestingly, from what I've heard it seems like they almost always end with the person being cured when the object of their affection returns their love, but I like the idea of them getting the surgery to remove the flowers and thus remove their feelings), but… I think this concept could be very interesting, if extremely cringe for everyone involved (the writer (me), probably the readers).
This is Spinal Tap hanahaki fic. Nigel is in love with David, but refuses to admit it. Nigel becomes terminally ill from the hanahaki (a manifestation of someone’s unrequited love where yellow flowers fill their lungs). David thinks that Jeanine is the one Nigel is in love with and so urges him to confess his feelings to her. Only when Nigel is about to have surgery to save his life does David realize it was him that Nigel loves. He goes to confess that he loves him too, except the surgery is over and Nigel no longer loves him.
I don’t know why this had to be Spinal Tap except that I thought it would have been interesting if this had happened during the time that the in-universe documentary was being filmed, so Marty DiBergi ends up making a found footage-style horror film against his will (I dunno, I just have a vivid image of Nigel suddenly coughing up flowers during, say, one of those interview scenes in the movie, which certainly sounds like something out of a horror movie to me). And also I feel like Nigel is the type of character who would rather die than confess his love to David (which is definitely the reason why the movie doesn’t end with them in a relationship, and not because the movie was made in the 80’s and audiences probably weren’t ready for a M/M relationship depicted seriously and not as a joke… I still think it’s 100% canon, I don’t care what anyone says. (Michael McKean even agreed with a fan that it was a love triangle and I don’t care that he was probably joking, when someone told me he had said that I was OVERJOYED. Plus, you could say “well he was just an actor in the movie, it doesn’t matter what his opinion is” but the movie was improvised by the actors so they’re the writers too and I definitely believe that he and ESPECIALLY Christopher Guest were playing the relationship romantically. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk)).
One thing is, I haven’t actually read any hanahaki fics and I also feel like it’s probably a really icky trope if you don’t write it in a certain way (also interestingly, from what I've heard it seems like they almost always end with the person being cured when the object of their affection returns their love, but I like the idea of them getting the surgery to remove the flowers and thus remove their feelings), but… I think this concept could be very interesting, if extremely cringe for everyone involved (the writer (me), probably the readers).
